@[email protected] @[email protected]

> there is value in the process rather than just in the output

This seems a crucial aspect that is frequently being ignored, and I suppose I see this highlighted as somebody who's doing some teaching at the moment. Brandon Sanderson (the author) has a saying he's given several variations of that boils down to "I didn't get any money for all the books I wrote before I got published, but I did get a better writer and a better person from them."

On the other hand, I started programming by literally automating my then data entry job out of existance. I didn't learn any more manually copying the data between a spreadsheet and a database the third time than the second.

But I think we're terrible at judging what is and what isn't a learning experience and worth doing, and even worse I think that can change with both experience and situation. My advice on whether to use an automatic website creator is going to different if you're an art student who needs an online portfolio right now, or if you want to be a website designer.

Random find of the day; can't say I'm much of a K-Pop person, but it seems that there's some pretty solid K-Rock out there. And I'm a sucker for songs that use traditional instruments in unusual contexts, and take advantage of the head room being metal gives you rather than just going full metal all the way through.

youtube.com/watch?v=kbx0sg4S...

#MusicFindOfTheDay #Gayageum (I think)

@[email protected] Literally just discovered @[email protected] this morning, and their art style would look amazing on cards.

@[email protected] @[email protected] I have just posted my first post to the nuance hashtag to commemorate the shear level of wtf that thread induced.

Becoming increasingly convinced that my swiping keyboard on mobile is getting less and less accurate, and increasingly paranoid that I'm actually just getting more and more of a grumpy old man. #nuance

@[email protected] It wouldn't be a traditional deck (but if you wanted that, why commission art? :D) but I've been enjoying the art from @[email protected] on their feed.

@[email protected] Also, as a very random side note the EU (as an organisation, and various governments within the EU) are currently funding open source infrastructure work. It gets in the weeds quickly, but it may be something of interest: even if you don't need/want to engage with it yourself, individuals can apply for support to help projects as long as the maintainers agree the work benefits the project.

@[email protected] I saw just as I posted! I hadn't spotted how recent your posts were or I would have waited in case you were still writing (as you were...)

@[email protected] feel free to get in touch if I can help, I do this kind of thing when I'm not ill: blog.mavnn.eu/2024/01/29/sho...

@[email protected] Well, given the type of people who follow you it doesn't seem like it would be hard to get help on the technical implementing of anything that needs implementing. But is that actually the aspect you're feeling paralysed by, or is it more the getting funding etc side of things?

A man just showed up in the mentions of somebody I follow and said "a third party you don't even know about expressed nuance about this idea and nuance is bad, because decisions should be black or white and you should take responsibility." The person he was directing the mention to was not taking about nuance, and is not responsible for the decision being made.

Don't be that man. Please. There are several layers of not being that man you should aspire to.

@[email protected] Fnord.

So, yes, this brand does use the same kind of #coffee beans so the taste is kind of the same as the one we normally buy but pre incinerated with a blow torch and delivered to your taste buds with a hammer.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, it's been long enough since I set up a new device I'd forgotten but Syncthing-fork is the way to go on android.

Hmm. Looks like the Bonfire UI doesn't allow for polls with attached images. I'll try creating one via the API tomorrow. In the mean time, here's Eddy

Gee thanks, #adhd! What my #chronicfatigue really needed was new project ideas that are related enough to what I'm trying to do already I'll be constantly reminded of them, large enough to need non trivial effort, silly enough to be tempting and completely useless. Why not just hit all the high points at once?!

Occurs to me that by using polls I could make a play through of a #visualnovel on @VisualInk an #ActivityPub actor such that the first person picking each option span off a new save game down the new path (or even each vote triggered a reply to the vote on the new path given the novels can contain randomised elements). Sort massively multiplayer visual novels where anyone seeing a post could jump in and spin off a branch from the play through.

For reasons best known to my subconscious, forgetting to test changes while logged out is a deeply embedded habit that no amount of embarrassing bugs seems to shake.

bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects...

Now with bonus bug fix to not give controls to guest users that won't work. Oops.